Liberator - 1911-05-05

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THE LIBERATOR

A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Cause of Good Government and the Advancement of the Afro-Americans.
Vol, IX 5 cts. a copy LOS ANGELES, CAL., MAY 5, 1911 $1.50 a year No. 12

RESIDENCE OF JUDGE CHARLES SILENT, CHESTER PLACE.

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Education in the South.

The fourteenth conference for
education in the South was in
session last week in Jacksonville,
Fla., with well known educators
from all parts of the United States
and several foreign countries in
attendance. The feature of the
opening session was the annual
address of the President, Robert C.
Ogden of New York. After ex¬
pressing his gratification of the
progress made in the last year and
reiterating the objects of the con¬
ference, Mr. Ogden said, in part:

“Our great universities and col¬
leges, which are the crown .of our
American civilization, are worthy
of the highest honor and most
profound respect; bu the true
democratic idea is not to influence
society downward from the top, but
upward from the bottom. We have
discovered that education is life—
the most abundant life. We are
beginning to define education as
implying the training imposed by
social and industrial needs of the
community, and are asserting that
the special capacities and the pros¬
pective wage-earning occupation of
the pupil be carefully considered in
the training for life given in the
school, thus creating larger effi¬
ciency for the person and greater
prosperity for the States.

“There is also coming a broader
view of the philanthropic ideal in
education. Recent legislation in
several States tends towards the
protection of children from injury
and needless severity, compulsory
attendance at school, and proper
sanitation. Public opinion is going
beyond the law, and is insisting on
a more generous supply of school
books and materials, medical in¬
spection, segregation of the morally
and physically defective as objects
for special care, improvement in
training, pay, and qualifications of
teachers.”

What education can do for the
commercial prosperity of a country
was the subject discussed by Dr.
Paul Ritter, minister from Switzer¬
land to this country. He used
Switzerland as an illustration.
Switzerland supports a population
of 3,700,000, although in size less

than one-third as large as Florida,
the minister declared, attributing
the general prosperity which pre¬
vailed throughout his country to
the wide diffusion of education.

The abstract of the North Caro¬
lina Mutual and Provident associa¬
tion is out, and the last report of
the greatest Negro insurance com¬
pany in the world indicates that
stead}' growth has always marked
its course. The association is now
twelve years old. Beginning in
1899 with $540 for a year’s busi¬
ness, it has gained so steadily every
year without exception that its
business for 1910 was $245,238.
Besides the exceptional showing in
collections, it has $69,318 in real
estate; cash in banks and office,
$21,154, and a balance of $95,535
in the treasury. During its twelve
years the company has paid over
$500,000 in benefits and has written
over 200,000 members. Further¬
more it has a $20,000 cash bond in
the hands of the South Carolina
insurance commissioner as a guar¬
antee for its policy holders in that
State. The company was organized
with John Merrick, a barber, of
Durham, N. C., as its president.

NEW YORK, April 24,—The
oldest pupil in the New York public
schools, Mrs. Martha Harmon, has
just received from the board of
education two gold medals—one for
regularity in attendance. Al¬
though 70 years old and a grand¬
mother, Mrs. Harmon throughout
the term has been a diligent and
exemplary pupil in the primary
department of the night school
at Public School No. 157. dhe
was born a slave in Kentucky.

We commend the above to our
young readers. This is the kind
of spirit that wins victories, and
if more of them were imbued with
the same strong will there is no
telling what might be the results.
Mrs. Harmon has set a splendid
example and it will clo good.—
Western Outlook.

Young People’s Societies

The crowd that greeted the
Douglas Literary Society last Fri-
day evening, taxed the capacity
of the hall, every seat being taken.
The occasion being a debate be¬
tween the Young Mens’ Assembly
represented by L. K. Beeks and
B. K. Edmonds and Attorney
Barnett and Mr. Jas. Alexander,
representing the Douglas. The
able manner with which the de¬
baters handled their subjects and
the fund of information displayed
on both sides of the contest, amply
paid the large audience for its
attendance.

“Resolved that United States
senators should be elected by the
direct vote of the people,” was the
question discussed. This being one
of the issues now engaging the
public mind. The debaters from
their splendid arguments showed
that they had carefully studied
every phase of the subject. One
of the enjoyable features of the
discussion was the amount of wit
and humor thrown into the de¬
bate. It was impossible for one
to listen to those eloquent addresses
sparkling as they did with thoughts
born of wide reading and careful
preparation, without having his
desire for information greatly in¬
creased.

Another educating feature of
the programme were the select
readings by Messrs. P. Henry and
Y. Kelso. These with the instru¬
mental solo by Miss Leona Jordon
were entertaining.

Mr. Lacy presented Miss Senola
Maxwell a beautiful bound volume
entitled “The Life and Works of
Paul Lawrence Dunbar.” The
prize awarded her for winning the
spelling match at the Golden Rule
some weeks ago. The Douglas
will give an old fashioned spelling
match next Friday evening, after
which refreshments will be served.

It is gratifying to note that the
attendance at the Young People’s
Literary Societies is rapidly in¬
creasing in size and interest. This
is a good indication and means
much for the future as the men
and women who attend them will

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get in the habit of reading and
thinking. Their thoughts will be
lifted from the common things
around them to the high and noble
things to be found only in the realm
of good literature. The young man
or woman that can find pleasure
in spending his evenings in com¬
panionship through the medium
of their books, with Shakespeare,
Irving, Longfellow and Whittier
are indeed aristocrats.

The Wesley Chapel Literary So¬
ciety is making final arrangements
to intellectually entertain its mem¬
bers and friends. Besides the usual
programme there will be an evening
with Whittier, Longfellow, Dunbar
and other American poets. Among
the Orators, Lincoln, Frederick
Douglas, Webster, Clay and Price
will be studied. Evenings will also
be spent with the great women
who led in the Anti-Slavery move¬
ments in this country.

The object of course is to create
in the young people a love for read¬
ing. To note that Miss Stovall
and Miss Whites are to have the
backing of Madames Sellers, Tib-
bet, Greer and King bespeakes
success. Of course it is always
understood that Mr. J. A. Jackson
will be there to push forward any¬
thing that has for its object the
advancement of the young people.

Nothing has been heard from the
young people of Dr. Hill's church.
There is not a finer body of young-
people than those that attend his
church and Sunday school.

Prize for Essay Won by Negro
Student

ITHACA, N. Y., May 1—James
B. Clarke, a negro student at Cornell,
whose essay on the race question
at Cornell caused comment recently,
has been awarded the prix d'honour
in the annual competition in French
essay writing and translation under
the auspices of the Society of French
Professors of America. Clarke is
a junior in the arts college and
comes from the West Indies.

Municipal Railroads

Every citizen who has the good
of the community at heart should
give his moral assistance to the
proposition to construct a muni¬
cipal railway to San Pedro. Before
the project takes definite shape,
the transportation corporations will
do all in their power to clog the
enterprise; they will say that the
estimates are wrong, that the city
cannot operate a railroad, that it
will become a political machine,
and that it will be a wrong to pri¬
vate capital for the city to go
into this enterprise.

All of which may be taken with
several grains of salt.

The trolley companies have only
themselves to thank for this de¬
termination of the city to build
the road. If the trolley company
managers had been thoroughly
awake, they would long ago have
made such freight and passenger
rates to the beach that there could
have been no ground for complaint.
The freight rates to and from San
Pedro to-day are outrageous—as
much as it would cost to haul by
wagon. There is no reason in
the round trip price of 50 cents
to the beaches for transient pas¬
sengers—none at all.

Take the case of the Los Angeles-
Pacific. It charges five cents for
a four mile ride to Arlington. But
if the passenger wants to travel
the next ten miles, he must pay
at the rate of 2 cents a mile if he
buys a round trip ticket and more
if he buys single passage.

Railroad men, with the exception
of E, P. Ripley and J. J. Hill seem
to be afflicted with the belief that
the people will take all that they
say as gospel. If you ask any
railroad man the why of the high
freight rates, he will reply that it
is done to put San Pedro and San
Diego on a parity of rates to Los
Angeles. In other -words, just be¬
cause the Santa Fe company can¬
not haul freight from San Diego
as cheap as the Southern Pacific,
the Salt Lake and the Pacific
Electric can from San Pedro, then
the high rate is maintained so that
the Santa Fe can get a share of

the haul from the sea to Los An¬
geles. What on earth, is the sense
of having a port at all, if not to
give the people who own that port
a fair deal in the way of freight
rates.

We clo not care whether the
municipal railway ever makes a
cent, although it will if the manage¬
ment is as sane and as wise as that
of the city water department.
If it will only reduce the cost of
transportation to and^from the
beaches, it will be money well
spent.—West End News.

Says the Western Christian Ad¬
vocate: “ There are about 4,000
colored church members in Colum¬
bus of all denominations. Eight
years ago there were about 12,000
colored people in Columbus, now
there are 20,000, showing a much
higher rate of increase than the
white race. Notwithstanding the
industrial disadvantages under
which this race rests, very substan¬
tial progress has been made in the
more remunerative occupations and
business ventures. Colored people
have 12 good sized grocery stores,
2 house movers, a number of trans¬
fer lines, 2 drug stores, 3 dentists,
2 tailors, 8 physicians, 5 attorneys,
4 undertakers, 2 feed stores, 12
policemen, 2 detectives, an assist¬
ant prosecuting attorney, 12 clerks
in the city and county offices, a
photographer, and a large number
of carpenters, asons, plasterers,
painters, barbers, milliners, and
restaurants. A colored man owns
a three-story hotel, and another a
theater. Alas! they own several
saloons also. Several hundred fami¬
lies own comfortable homes ranging
in value from $1,000 to $5,000. A
day nuresry, an industral school,
an Odd Fellow's hall worth $20,000
and a Knights of Pythias hall worth
$10,000 are among the properties
owned by the colored people in
Columbus.”

A drama will be given early in
May under the management of
Mrs. C. J. Smith, for the benefit
of Second A. M. E. Church.

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Can’t Spare Governor Johnson

For the first time a Californian
has loomed large enough to be
considered for a place on the nation¬
al republican ticket. Governor
Johnson has earned that distinction
by reason of his brilliant record
during the few months he has been
in office.—Express.

We can’t spare him. Although
Governor Johnson has given the
Augean stables the best scrubbing
they have had in forty years, there
is still a smell of the machine in
many of the commissions of the
State. When he shall have so
disinfected the various departments
of the State government till not a
scintilla of the old machine is left.
California will be able to let the

nation have him for president
a term or two. But not till then,
unless it is actually necessary to
relieve the country of President
Taft by the election of Governor
Johnson as president.

An Object Lesson in Labor Unionism

For a number of years the Santa
Fe R. R. Company has employed
a large number of negro porters
who also acted as brakemen. At
the demand of the labor unions of
this state, a law was passed by
the last Legislature compelling the
railways of this state to use what
they called a full crew—that is
one front and one rear brakesman.
Under the terms of the new law,
the Santa Fe R. R. Company,
the only company in this state em¬
ploying negro porters, decided, it
is stated, to promote the negro
porters to the position of front
brakemen which carried with it
an increase of salary, white men
to be used as rear brakemen.
It is stated that the labor unions
threatened to tie up the entire
Santa Fe system if the negro porters
were promoted to the position
of brakeman.

We are not in a position to vouch
for the correctness of the above
statement of organized labors’
threat against the Santa Fe, but
we do know that the law for the
increase of train crews, was inacted
at the behest of the labor unions.
We know further that they have
been laboring for ten years to force
all negroes out of the employment
of the railroads. The fact that
as soon as this law, originated by
the labor unions, became effective,
every negro in the employ of the
railroad was immediately droped
from its services, is significant.
These men, many of them, have
been in the service of the company
ten to fifteen years, which is
ample proof of their faithfulness
to duty. This little bit of organ¬
ized labor legislation will serve as
an object lesson for the negroes of
what they may expect when
organized labor gets control of
any law making body. If the

effects of the law in question is a
criterion of what will happen,
should the whole country become
unionized, free government would
be a thing of the past, and equal
opportunity a by word and a
scorn.

All Negroes Bared.

The Machinist’s Union of this
city has passed unanamously a
resolution debaring all negroes from
becoming members. This action
and the forcing of negro porters
out of the Santa Fe R. R. service
are object lessons that the negroes
cannot fail to learn. And to ask
negroes to in any way affiliate
with any branch of organized labor
is simply asking the negro to cut
his own throat.

A Move in the Right Direction

The organization of a number
of well attended literary societies
by the young people of the city
is a move in the right direction.
Their programmes are always ele¬
vating and instructing. Those at¬
tending them being well paid for
their visit. We would advise our
young people who waste their
time attending cheap theaters and
picture shows to attend these Lit¬
erary societies where they come in
contact with good books, and the
men and women who are enrich¬
ing their minds by their perusal.
The proudest and most lasting
aristocracy is the aristocracy of
the mind. The poverty of the
mind being the most abject.

Cast your lot with these young
people and with them take up the
study of the books left us as a
legacy by the great minds of the
past.

Attorney Tyler of the law firm
of Darden & Tyler will address
the citizens of Pasadena at the
celebration of John Brown’s birth¬
day May 12th. Mr. Tyler is a
brilliant orator and a well equipped
attorney being a graduate of this
Harvard Law School.

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A Campaign for $75,000.

The board of management of
the colored Y. M. C. A. is preparing
to inaugurate a whirl wind cam¬
paign for $75,000 in order to se¬
cure the $25,000 offered by Mr.
Rosenwald for the building of a
colored Y. M. C. A. in this city.
The colored men in Chicago, Wash¬
ington, D. C. and Altanta, Georgia,
not only raised the amounts re¬
quired of them to secure the $25,000,
but ran far beyond it. Take for
instance, the colored men of At¬
lanta, Georgia, who were asked to
raise $40,000 as their share of the
$100,000 to be raised. In ten days
in spite of poverty and low wages
they raised . $67,000 or $27,000
more than was required of them.
That is civic pride worthy of
emulation. The contributions ran
from twenty-five cents to a $1,000.

In Chicago, a colored laboring
man with $1,500 in the bank in¬
sisted on contributing $1,000 to
the Y. M. C. A. funds—or two
thirds of his entire wealth. That
was putting man above the dollar
in a manner worthy of remembrance.

We have in this city, something
like fifteen to twenty thousand
people; well housed, well paid and
prosperous. And can raise $75,000
with far less personal sacrifice
than was required of our brethren
in Atlanta, where wages are not
so high. We feel sure that our
colored citizens will respond
promptly to the demand for con¬
tributions when the campaign opens.

The present building occupied
by the Y. M. C. A. has long since
proven inadequate for the demands
made upon it. A new and larger
building with an up-to-date in¬
dustrial department is absolutely
neeessazy to fit our young men
to fill places that are demanding
their services each day in every
department of the city’s industrial
life. Money contributed to fit
young men to live larger lives is
the best investment one can make.

We were placed here by an
Alwise Providence to make men,
not money. Hence those who con¬
tribute the largest financial assist¬
ance to institutions engaged in

making men, render the greatest
service to humanity and country.

The hope of our race for the
future depends upon the conduct
of our men of to-day.

No race or country can hold its
own without men. Men with edu¬
cated minds, educated morals and
healthy, well developed bodies,
through whose veins flows blood
untainted with disease. These are
the kind of men that the great Y.
M. C. A. is making for us.

Without doubt the intelligent,
race loving patriotic, prosperous
citizens. will raise the $75,000 in
the characteristic way that Los
Angeles always does things.

The white and colored Y. M.
C. A.’s of this city, are two of the
largest in the world and hence
accomplish big results with ease.

The Forum

The audience at the Forum last
Sunday evening in point of size
and decorum, reminded old mem¬
bers of former days when its pro¬
ceedings were characterized by the
dignity and intelligence of those
taking part and not by the small
personal bickerings that threatened
its usefulness of late. The topics
discussed were handled in a manner
that were at once dignified and
educating.

Attorney W. R. Taylor delivered
a short address, urging the members
to handle all questions relating to
the rights of the race with the ut¬
most care, urging that the less talk
the better. He warned them es¬
pecially against the danger of
thoughtless speaking. That when
matters having to do with the
rights of our people were before
the courts that the talking should
be done only by the attorneys
handling the case. He touched
upon many things in which the
race is interested in such a soft,
scholarly way as to make a lasting
impression upon all who heard him.
He was also introduced to the Y.
M. C. A. before coming to the
Forum, where he delivered a short
address.

His addresses in both cases being
well received. The thoughtful

members of the Forum were es¬
pecially gratified with his counsel
against hasty, thoughtless speak¬
ing in a body like the Forum.
There has been decidedly too much
thoughtless, loud, incendiary talk
in. the Forum by people who
think that free speech means that
small spirits have the right to
slander and vilify big ones. The
people who do these things perhaps
mean to do no harm. They are
merely exercising what they regard
their right of free speech: And’yet
the whole body is responsible for
the words and acts of the people
in question. The topics were also
entertainingly discussed by Mr.
Milton W. Lewis, the well known,
popular real estate dealer and
Mssrs. S. Oliver and Morgan T.
White. It was a great meeting
enjoyed by the entire audience.

The speeches, being such as to
give information and lend inspira¬
tion to the hearers.

The chairs ruling on points of
order raised were happy and did
away with any possibility of fric¬
tion. The Forum has inaugurated
an era of thoughtful, heathful
study of public questions.

Capt. G. W. Hawkins.

The well known old patriarch
delivered one of his enthusiastic
addresses at the Forum on the
22nd. Capt. Hawkins is one of
our busy, wealthy citizens who
takes a deep interest in all maters
pertaining to the well fare of the
race. On hearing that there was
a strong effort being made to have
the negroes join the labor unions,
he came out to sound the alarm.
Although the captain has grown
older in recent years in his powers
as an orator, he is as young as
ever. His speech at the Forum
was brim full of his old time en*
thusiasm and made the Forum
look like an Ocean in a storm*
And as for the negroes joining
labor unions, captain made the
idea look like an ox cart that
had been hit by a fast train.

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Dr. Lyman Abbott Sperry de¬
livered one of the most entei tain-
ins: and instructive lectures ever
listened to at the Y. M. C. A.
last Sunday. Dr. Sperry, a grad¬
uate of Oberlin Ohio College, al¬
though seventy years old enjoys
the vigor of a man of fifty. In
spite of the fact that the announce¬
ment of his lecture was made too
late for publication in the colored
papers, the Y. M. C. A. auditorium
was filled with a representative audi¬
ence.

Touching upon the dangers that
threaten the stability of American
institutions, he called attention
especially to the divorce evil, pay-
in 0 ' especial attention to the appal¬
lin’ 0 - fact that a great majority of di¬
vorces granted, was granted becruse
one or the other of the parties had
violated the marriage vow and that
violation of the seventh command¬
ment was causing untold misery
bv spreading diseases that destroy
the health, dethrone the mind,
causing a lowering of moral senti¬
ment of the nation, thus under¬
mining the foundation upon which
rests our social system. He paid
a glowing tribute to the progress
made by the colored people since
their emancipation, but warned
the audience against any letting
up, that there was still work
and much of it to be done if the
race was to maintain its upward
movement. He condemned in the
severest terms the double standard
of morality maintained in this
country- Arguing that the abo-
lition of the double standard anu
the substitution of the single is
absolutely necessary if our moral
fabric is to stand. He urged upon
the young men the importance of
embracing the gospel of work.
Mental and physical work, contin¬
ual work, backed by temperance
and economy.

If You Are Looking for a Park for
Picnics or Private Parties Do
Not Overlook Seal Gardens,

It is now under the mangement
of Golden West Lodge No. 86,

I B. P. 0. E. of W. The grounds
are provided with a pavillion 60
feet by 90 feet. Picnic, Dining Room
50 feet by 90 feet, Barbecue Pits,
Lunch Stands, Merry-go-rounds,
Swings, Foot-ball ground, Lawn
Tennis Court, Croquette, etc.

The park has plenty of shade,
and is large enough to be just the
place for a day’s pleasure. No
intoxicating drinks will be 'allowed
on the premises. Hurry and select
your date. For further infor¬
mation call Broadway 3851, or
see J. B. Loving, 927 E. Twelfth
street. The parly is located on
Long Beach car line.

Mr. J. W. Jones has reopened
his d'ye works and tailoring estab¬
lishment at 150 W. 35th street,
where he will be pleased to meet. a
his old friends. Dyeing, cleamng
and repairing promptly and thor-
oughly done. Work called foi and
delivered.

Phone South 2049.

The A. G. Gardner Piano Co.,
will sell you a good piano cheaper
than any firm in the city. They
own their own building and are
free from the enormous rent payed
by the other music dealers . If
your piano needs tunning or repair¬
ing ring them up.

Telephones Home A 3189, Broad-
way 2249. ______

Liner Section

The Seal Garden Park.

The Independent Order of Elks
have leased Seal Garden Park and
thrown it open as a pleasure ground
for colored picnics and outings.
Only the best of order will be main¬
tained. We feel certain the colored
people will appreciate the advan¬
tages offered. It fills a long felt
want. Read their annoncement
in this edition and arrange your
picnic dates.

A. G. GARDNER

PIANO BOUSE

Phones, Home A-3189 Broadway 2249

We Sell and Rent Pianos at Lowest Rate
AN HONEST PLACE TO DEAL
Expert Tuning

118 Winston St., Los Angeles, Cal.

Office Phone
Main 4525

Residence
Soutn 930

HARRY M. MITCHELL

REAL ESTATE

401 San Fernando Bldg.

Of Mitchell & Lewis Bos Angeles, Cal.

Citizens Truck Co.

100 w. Market St.

Phones Main 878 Home A-3581

Office"'Phone
Mainl[4524

Residence
So. 4511

MILTON W. LEWIS

REAL ESTATE

The Wesley Chapel Literary So¬
ciety will give a big free social at
the Wesley M. E. Church, corner
Eighth and San Julian streets next
Tuesday evening, May 9th. Good
programme. Ice cream and cake
served free. Everybody invited.

H. H. Wiliams has one hundred
building lots that he is selling cheap 4|)( San Fernando Bids;., Los Angeles, Cal.
on easy terms. For a small cash
payment and the balance on terms —
to suit, you can pay for one of these
lots out of the money you are
wasting. These lots will pay you
200 per cent on your investment in
less than five years.. Call and
see the Williams Co., about it.

1315 E. 12th street. Telephone
Main 6368.

H. J E V N E C O.

7 TWO STORES

6th and Broadway
208-210 So. Spring St.

GOOD THINGS TO EAT

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SEVEN

Flashes from the Furlong Tract

Mr. J. E. Lattimore has removed
to his recently purchased home on
54th street.

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Rodgers of 53rd street and
his name is Booker T. Washington
Rodgers.

The church social given at the
home of the pastor Rev. Harrison
H. Jones was a success in every
way and a financial help to the
church.

of the mothers anticipate the joy
of seeing it. And they will also
attend the concert of five hundred
voices which will be given on Thurs¬
day and Friday of the same week
at Temple Auditorium.

At the next meeting Mrs. J. A.
Wooten will read a paper for dis¬
cussion entitled—Citizenship.

Mrs. Julian W. Stacker, president.
Mrs. C. J. Smith, secretary.

By Mrs . Julia W. Stacker.

Items of Local Interest

If you are economizing, call at
the Central Avenue Variety Mart—
general merchandise. Prices to
suit. 1209 Central Avenue.

Tel. South 2049

JONES 5 DYE WORKS

JAS. W. JONES, Prop.

TAILORING, CLEANIVG, DY1VG, REPAIRING
All Work Called for and Delivered

150 W. 35th St., Los Angeles, Cal

Main 7698 Home F-4590

A. J. Roberts
Son and Company

Undertakers and Enbalmers
FUNERAL PARLORS

Lady Attendant

Mr. Purnell of Holmes Ave. con¬
tinues to improve.

Dr. H. J. Hoare of the Seventh
Day Adventist Church began a
series of special services on Sun¬
day evening, April 30th, 1911.

Subject:—Perfect Health—How to
Obtain It. All welcome.

Five or six boys who had their
names on the Roll of Honor in
Miss Orger's room will never for¬
get the May day joy ride to Venice.

The Parent-Teachers Association
held their regular meeting on the
fourth Thursday in April,

The numbers rendered by the
Misses Woolen, Turner and Craig
were commendable. Miss Lavonia
Craig was elected assistant chair¬
man of the Program committee
for the rest of the school term.

Another^ very important number
was an article from Munsey’s maga¬
zine read by Mrs. C. J. Smith,
the title of which was “How to
Make Children Mind” written by
a Kindergartner in New York city.
The discussions which followed the
reading brought light to many
mothers.

Miss Lillie, the principal, an¬
nounced the school exhibit to be
held on May 15th, at Ebell Club
rooms and urged the mothers to
attend. She also said that some
of the work of our children had been
selected for exhibition and many

Mr. Percy Butler of 1824 Mont¬
rose street, Philadelphia, a retired
mechanic, is stopping at 2408 Hope
street. He will be pleased to meet
any old citizens of Philadelphia or
persons who have friends there.
He will spend a year in this city.

Mr. Claud Allen of 3509 Wabash
avenue, Chicago, is spending a
few days in the city.

Mr. D. A. Atkins of 1315 1-2
East 12th street wants everybody
ot know that he does all kinds of
shoe repairing. Work done while
you wait. Give him a call.

Mr. Howard Clemens of the
Young Mens 7 Alliance of Pasa¬
dena was a visitor in the City last
Sunday. He says the young men
of his city are making progress
along all lines.

Buy Homes

Elsewhere in this edition will
be found the cards of Mitchell,
Lewis and Williams, dealers in
real estate. Instead of paying rent,
go to one of these gentlemen and
purchase you a home on the in¬
stallment plan. A house that will
rent for twelve dollars per month,
can be purchased on the install¬
ment plan by paying fifteen dollars
per month. By this it can easily
be seen that the home will cost the
man just three dollars a month.

12th and Los Angeles Street

B. K. Edmonds T. Kajiura
Managers

Edmunds- Kajiura
Produce Co.

Grow of 8 a1? d kindi pper9 Vegetables

P. O. Box 435 Sawtelle, Cal.

SEEDS SEEDS

The best for

Sothern California
At

Aggler & Musser Seed Company

113=115 N. Main St.

j Los Angeles

Office hours—10 to 12 a. m. Phone Main 2463
1 to 4 p. m.

Geo. D. Taylor M. D.

317£ South Main

Rooms 2 and 3

Residence

2407 San Pedro Street

Phone South 211 Loa Angeles, Cal

Los Angeles Van
Truck and

Storage Co.

Moving Packing Shipping Storing
F 4673 Main 173

814 LINDEN ST.

EIGHT

THE LIBERATOR

WHY NOT OWN A HOME AND PAY
RENT TO YOURSELF?

tract of 100 building lots on 37 and 3Sth streets. Thes
lots are selling fast. Don’t wait or you will be too late.

Call at or write to

M • 6368 H * H * WILLIAI Offi C e C i31S EAST 12th STREET

Phone Main 6368 ____

S ecuri ty.

a 23 M£SBANK

OLDEST AND LARGEST SAVINGS BANK IN THE SOUTHWEST
Spring and Fifth Streets

_ S3 1 000 000 00 Capital and Reserve. - -SI ,938,000.00

Resources. start A SAVING ACCOUNT AND SEE IT GROW

Fisk Needs A $300,000 Endowment

NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 5—
An effort is being made by the
trustees of Fisk University to raise
a fund of $300,000 for the general
needs of the school. Of this sum
the central education board has
already given $60,000. The trus¬
tees will make the following use
of the money when raised: For
heating, light, and laundry .plant,
$50,000: repairs, equipment, etc.,
$10,000; indebtedness (accumulat¬
ed annual deficits), $43,865.93,
endowment, $196,134.07. Fisk
university is one of the oldest and
best of the many colored educational
institutions in the South. Its grad¬
uates have gone into all parts of
the country. Professor W. E.
Burghardt Du Bois is a graduate
of the university. Booker T. Wash¬
ington is a member of the board of
trustees. About 500 students are
enrolled. There are 35 acres on
the campus, 14 buildings, and a
plant worth $367,662. The present
endowment amounts to $67,000.
Among its 777 graduates are some
of the most prominent men and

T n L &c?SunsetMaln64 Re 2018 Darwia Ave.

H. C. WHEAT

ws“r c %NB“» i !i%si l AV™

Stand 108 San Pedro St., Los Angeles, Cal

Practices in all Courts State and Federal

Notary Public

Q.W. WICKLIFFE

ATTORNEY AT LAW
Room 210 Thorpe Bldg.

S. E. Cor. Broadway and Franklin St.
Phone Main 2051 Los Angeles, Cal

Phone Bwdy. 4353

Home F-5330 Home A 1642

Main 1278

H. H Rubbish Co.

E. Ci. HILL, Manager

Work Done Promptly at Reasonable Prices

2421 E. Tenth Street

c. H. LEWIS

Prescription Druggist

Cor. Third and Main Streets.

Also First and Broadway
and Seventh and Central Avenue
Los Angeles

J, W. COLEMAN

The Big Employment Agent that
furnishes help for everybody that
wants it. And employment for all
persons that need same.

„ * oq 7 q Bdwy 2106

Pnones, Home A-2o7y

211 East Second Street

THE DOUGLAS LITERARY
SOCIETY

MEETS EVERY FRIDAY EVENING AT 8
O'CLOCK AT THE FIRST A. M. E.
CHURCH, 8th AND TOWNE AVENUE.

Program Always Good Excellent Music

ALL CORDIALLY INVITED

women of the race. Fisk univer¬
sity was founded in 1867, its first
quarters being an old army bar¬
racks. The Fisk jubilee singers
won fame all over the countiy by
efforts to raise funds for the school.

Of f ice, Main 8800 Phones Res,, South 5734

LeRoy D. Barnett

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW

400 San Fernando Bldg.
S. E. Cor. Main & 4th Sts.

LOS ANGELES, CAL,